Vendor Details

Giva

www.givainc.com

Founded 1999

United States

About eChangeManager

Standalone ITIL Change Management that is cloud based. Get up-and-running fast with Giva's out-of-the-box defaults to meet your organizational, regulatory and HIPAA compliance requirements. Dashboards, notifications and alerts keep everyone informed, enabling peer reviews and collaboration on new releases. Easily define ITIL processes to speed up approvals and manage the documentation. Gain visibility into code and configuration changes with Giva's central system of record for all IT changes.

Pros: We run a 24 x 7 IT organization of a large public hospital. We've been using Giva since 2015 and we all love it. Overall, it's an excellent HIPAA compliant product and we especially like the Change Calendar. Previous to Giva we used a lot of excel spreadsheets. All of the members of the CAB would come to our weekly meeting with their proposed changes which often conflicted with each other. With the Giva Change Calendar we can more quickly and efficiently plan changes. Our entire organization has visibility to what the different departments are doing from the proposal to implementation phase. Giva is ITIL compliant, but very flexible so we can adjust it to our specific requirements. We don't have to use all the ITIL fields. Our Service Desk team also uses the Change Calendar to assess if a problem can be linked to a change related failure.

Cons: There are No negatives that I can think of.

Overall: The Change Calendar improved our productivity by about 60%. We can also link hardware and software assets and service requests to Requests for Change and that helps track important issues for reporting. The approval work flow helps us make sure all RFCs are properly documented and approved. The reporting and dashboards are very flexible and easy for anybody to use in our organization.